State Shareholding and ESG Performance in Chinese Private Firms

A dataset supporting research on the relationship between state ownership and environmental, social, and governance performance in privately controlled firms in China. The data was authored by Baifan Chen and is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license. The dataset was last updated on May 9, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the correlation between state shareholding percentages and ESG scores based on the described research focus.
• Modeling the impact of state ownership on specific ESG dimensions (environmental, social, governance) in private firms.
• Conducting replication studies for academic research on Chinese corporate finance and sustainability.

Strengths

• Dataset is 7.4 MB in size, suggesting a manageable download and processing scale.
• Includes replication code files with a .do extension, indicating reproducibility for statistical analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling tasks.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely compiled for academic research, as indicated by the replication code and article reference.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-09 14:41:42

Geography

China